Orissa a land of hoary antiquities and exquisite natural beauties carries in its lap a celestial gay abandon any for everyone that steps on its soil. Its unity in diversity. A state with an old legacy, a glorious heritage, and a rich past. A culture that has been ,and is trying to take the entire humanity in its embrace symbolized by the suggestive gesture of lord Jagannath and the color code of the two brothers and the sister who represented the entire humanity. Their white black and yellow. With its rich flora and fauna rare else where and still rarer spices, jungles with thick foliage housing myriads of singing and dancing birds, playful animals in their natural abode, high rising mountains, long deep gorges, extensive sheets of greeneries of the country side , sprawling palm , casuarinas , and coconut fringed beaches with golden sands and of course the sea with usual foam froth and fury is a veritable haven for holidayers , site seers , adventure seekers, and non the less the pilgrims . Besides thousands of temples dating back to sixth century AD and meticulously arranged in chronological details up to 12 century AD speaks up and architecture of a class, magnum opus of super craftsmanship where a every stone is a great manuscript of a great legend or epoch and every temple a poetry in stones. It has lakes as big as gulfs dotted with splendid mountain clad islands sheltering millions of birds both permanent and migratory Orissa offers a recipe for every tourist. Its handlooms and handicrafts , its stone carvings and horn works its filigree all singularly or in combination speak volumes about the legacy and the ingenious innovation of finesse and super craftsmanship. Orissa not only can paint the huge of rainbow in the life of every tourist that visits it and fill it with the sublime virtues of a higher ecstasy a spiritual order that elevates in to a mindless state, where the individual entity terms non existent to give birth to an universal entity . Orissa probably is the lone location which offers a gate way to heaven (the Swargadwara) .
March 24, 2008
LAUGHTER YOGA
Yoga the science of establishing communion with the ultimate, a communion between individual self and universal self as individual self is nothing other than an extension of universal self, the ultimate. Out of many definitions two of the most vital definitions of key importance are “yoga karmasya kusalam”.That is yoga is the art of dispensation with skill and aptitude. Yoga is the methodology of discharging duties with total composer, an involved concern devoid of stress. If we look at the second definition of yoga it says “yoga samatwam uchyate”. This preset prophesizes that yoga establishes equanimity. The inherent question that underlies this prophesy brings to fore a state of absence of equanimity in human life or thought process. This naturally leads to the fact that equanimity was somewhere inexistence and because of whatever reason this sense of equanimity has been shattered. But all the same equanimity admittedly forms an integral part of human life otherwise man couldn’t have been searching for a lost entity which is of no relevance to human life and existence. Thus to sum it up it can be concluded that yoga is that art of skillful dispensation which successfully establishes the ultimate equanimity there by leading to forging a link between the individual and universal self. Equanimity is that state of positive composer which defies any disturbance and leave the human mind in a state of total equilibrium, the stage from which the mental ascendance begins to lead man to a stage of supramentality. This attainment unfolds an endless horizon of a superior self where human energy gets a full exclusive burst like the detonation of a dynamite and the latent inherent potentials unfold like the supple petals of a lotus. Instead of diving to the depths of this intricate science of yoga let us accept the indispensability of this age old practice. Admittedly the modern man with the aid of revolutionary scientific inventions has everything in his command so far as the externality of use and applications are concern. But in an incursion a journey within man is still a hapless child groping in the darkness. He is like an infant crying in the night, crying for the light with language but cry. Here comes in the role of laughter to dispel the gloom and to bring in light for redemption of his torture soul. Yoga has many dimensions and magnitudes. But the culmination of all the methodologies and practice leads to one simple path that is control of breath, the life force which distinguishes dead from alive. This is pranayam, the regulated and disciplined way of inhale and exhale which leads to inner generation of a vibrant self. The energy, the vital life force expose to degeneration with the multi dimensional negative impacts of a stressful life. Impacted by the negative forces this vital force gets dissipated and the regeneration is attained through total oxygenation of the entire life support system through practice of a disciplined way of controlling the breath with the attention focused singularly on the practice for the duration detached completely from any other thought process those engulf our perception in diverse ways. Laughter has been admitted as a practice of releasing the built of stress, the mounting tensions and to free the mind from the shackles of human bondage. While giving a vent to the pent-up emotions and while putting the emotional disturbances at rest and while healing the bruised sentiments it provides a boundless platform for relaxation. The bio engineers have traced out the number of facial muscles those come to play with a simple innocent smile on the face. If this is true and it of course is then laughter were a man bids adieu to all his negative aspects those burden is delicate and fragile mental equilibrium must doubtlessly play a much bigger role in putting thousands of muscles ligaments tissues into simultaneous action of total release creating ample scope for the blood to search in to the appropriate organs to keep those functionally fit.
Hence the innovation of laughter as another medium of yoga a latest addition to this age old science which elevates man to a boundless state of absolute gay abandon while regulating the inflow of the vital life force.
